The Mare (Mary Gaitskill)

The Mare is one of those novels with multiple voices, the same story told from a few perspectives. This one addressed class, race, privilege, propriety, paternalism, and the ill-conceived and self-congratulatory farce of “making a difference.” And it did this addressing by showing, rather than telling, and included apt sensory language around emotion, and language, and the inner worlds and how those are translated and understood by those outside the felt body.